since a long time ago, the persian gulf security has always formed the focus of attention of regional states and the world big powers. during the final years of the 20th and early 21st centuries given the changes and transformations occurring after the us war and iraq invasion, the significance of the region from security perspective increased. as a result, several conventions and special dialo...

terrorism is not a new phenomenon. history is full of terrorist acts which have taken or threaten many innocent people lives. increasing terrorist acts led the international community to expand its arrangements against them. consequently, approval of 12 world conventions and 7 regional ones is in parallel with the arrangements. through the un security council's resolution no. 1373 after 9/...

Abstract This article traces the expansion of international law from Hague Conventions, where only a state’s soldiers had legal status, to contemporary understanding that governs all participants in conflict. can be seen as humanitarian shift diminishes state power. article, however, argues Conventions established limited sphere formal because delegates deliberately left free-fighters outside l...

This research project implies the participation in reflectionof issue of vernacular architecture, systems representation, international charters and conventions, recovery linked to asset protection, order disseminate collect scientific knowledge that contributes value mobilize their development process our study area Matosinhos Municipality.

the main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in esp and egp subdisciplines of applied linguistics. eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to thompson and tribble’s (2...

This article covers four issues. First, it examines evolving international conventions to determine whether countries, especially developed countries, can take any steps to inhibit offshoring with the objective of protecting jobs in their respective countries. Second, it looks at statistics from independent sources to see if outsourcing exceeds insourcing, or vice versa, in the case of the U.S....

If one were to compare two human rights organizations, Physicians for Human Rights USA (PHR USA) and its Israeli counterpart, one would expect to find that their activities were similar. Surely the different geographical and political context within which each organization operates influences their work, but because both are doctors’ rights groups and because both use international human rights...

The rati ̄cation of ILO Labor Standards Conventions is a key explanatory variable in the empirical literature linking labor standards to economic performance. The assumption is that rati ̄cation gives information on labor standards implemented in a country. This paper tests this assumption, and in doing so it investigates the determinants of rati ̄cation directly and, indirectly, the determinants ...

There is a protracted stalemate between rich (the North) and poor (the South) countries over the question of minimum labour standards in developing economies. This paper is a sequel to Singh and Zammit (2000). It considers afresh key issues in the controversy. While fully recognizing the moral, political and philosophical dimension of this complex issue, the paper concentrates on the central ec...